Lyssa's inspirational thoughts for the day!

Christ. Jehovah. Wonderful. Counselor. Peace. Redeemer. Savior. Lord. Deliver. Lamb of God. Jesus. My heart is so full today. No matter what name you have for our Savior Jesus Christ, mine is FRIEND. He is ALWAYS there for me when I might not feel I deserve it. He listens. He is someone I can trust. He is always there for me when I am struggling or can’t stop crying. Or when I am so mad I don’t know what else to do. He is there for me when I fall. He always knows the right thing to say. He buoys me up. He loves me unconditionally. And no matter what I do, I am never too far from His love. I can never pay back my Savior for everything He has done for me... But I can serve others as He would. I can be their friend. That is one of the reasons why we are all here. To be there for each other. To love each other. To SERVE and MINISTER as He did. I am so grateful for the love that I have felt as I have just cried silently typing this. I know these things to be true! I know my Savior

Oh what a BEAUTIFUL week it has been. 🌅☀️😍 I feel like this picture of the sunset tonight perfectly captured how I have felt. There’s so much LIGHT that I have felt from my Heavenly Father the last couple of days. He has been so good to me and I feel so blessed to be here on this earth. I’ve had so many wonderful tender mercies and have seen God’s hand so much this week, that it’s almost like I’ve gotten a glimpse of what heaven would feel like. Life is too short my friends to do anything other than what makes you happy. So if you aren’t, find that happiness. Find that JOY. That PEACE. That LOVE. And know, that God is watching over you and helping you along. ♥️ #blessed #grateful #thatsunsettho #thelordismylight

The future is at times a scary thing. I sometimes get so caught up in the “what if’s” that I forget to live in the present. I recently read a talked by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland entitled “The best is yet to come” He says: "Some of you may wonder: Is there any future for me? What does a new year or a new semester, a new major or a new romance, a new job or a new home hold for me? Will I be safe? Will life be sound? Can I trust in the Lord and in the future? Or would it be better to look back, to go back, to stay in the past? To all such of every generation, I call out, “Remember Lot’s wife.” Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come” (Hebrews 9:11). Keep your eyes on your dreams, however distant and far away. Live to see the miracles of repentance and forgiveness, of trust and divine love that will transform you